The nation built on
education
Myanmar has celebrated the National Day
which marks the national campaign against the
colonial education for 93 years. What makes
this country’s National Day unique is its interconnection with education. The National Day of
a sovereign state is the day of supreme significance.
Started with boycott by university students
in 1920, the movement inspired the entire people to wake up from nightmares of colonialism.
The people who got involved in—some even sacrificed their lives—realized the importance of
education. They knew very well that the country
would eventually fall under the yoke of colonialism absolutely and would hardly rise up if the
academic independence of the university was
lost. They cherished the academic independence
as much as they hungered for the independence
of the nation.
They knew that the education is the wing
to fly higher in that era of strict colonial rule.
Without education, they would live in boxed-in
society and lost all possible sorts of individual
and national independence, they realized. That
is why they established national schools to keep
an alternative channel for education wide open
for younger generations.
We are now living in an era of much more
independent state, but we need to consider
whether we are having strong and independent
education system and whether we cherish the
education as much as our ancestors did.

Convenience for brethren
but not for locals
Mohnyin, 27 Nov—
Myanmar Railways arranged 69 coaches for
pastors and pastoress, and
church members of Kachin
State who will participate in
200th Anniversary of Christian Missionary in Myanmar from 25 November to
3 December. Giving priority for those who would
travel once in a blue moon
is great but a headache for

Myitkyina station master of MR because almost
all the dwellers in Kachin
State have to rely only on
rail route. “A special train
should be arranged for the
participants, but I think it is
out of reach for MR to handle the situation due to insufficient of coaches.” said
one of the Mohnyin station
staff to NLM reporter.
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The officials presented
prizes to the winners in the
essay contest. The ceremony ended with a song sung
by the students of BEHS
No. 22. Similarly, Deputy
Minister Dr San Lwin and
officials attended the commemoration ceremony at
Lewe BEHS No. 1.
The 93rd Anniversary
National Day was celebrated
on a grand scale at every region and state of the country
this morning.—MNA
Heritage Convention 2013.
Also present on the occasion were deputy ministers, officials of UNESCO,
the directors-general of departments, the rector of National Culture and Fine Arts
University (Mandalay), the
deputy director-general, the
scholars and officials of the
Fine Arts Department.
MNA

JITI provides railroad maintenance equipment for
Myanma Railways

Yangon, 27 Nov—A
handover of kinds of modern equipment for railroad
maintenance by Japan International Transport Institute
to Myanma Railways took
place at Yangon Railway
Station, here, this morning.
In his address at the
ceremony
of
handing
over four kinds of modern equipment, numbering
31, to MR, Union Minister
for Rail Transportation U
Than Htay said discussions
on the development of rail
transportation network with
JICA and Japanese firms
including the Ministry of
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan
that has been cooperating
with Myanmar in railway
services since 1965 are in

National Day marked in border town

93rd National Day
marked in spectacular
Myawady border town.

by the Ministry of Culture
and UNESCO sponsored
by Norwegian government
was held at the hall of the
ministry, here, on 25 and 26
November with an address
by Union Minister U Aye
Myint Kyu.

93rd Anniversary
National…

der with Thailand, today.
Students opened the ceremony by singing a song
“Pyi Myanmar”, [Land of

progress. Japanese government proposed 11 projects
for railway services to
be implemented in 2013.
Among them, 166-mile
Yangon-Toungoo railroad

Myanmar]. District Administrator U Tint Wai
Thone read out message
sent by the President. At
the ceremony, students
who won prizes in essay and poem contests
to mark the National
Day were awarded by U
Tint Wai Thone, District
Police Chief Deputy Police Lt-Col Aung Myint,
Township
Administrator U Thein Zaw Kan
and Chairperson of District Women’s Affairs
Committee Daw Hla
Hla Htay.—Tun Tun Oo
(Myawady Border Town)

section has been set as the
first phase of the development of Yangon-Mandalay
railroad, 108.5-mile Toungoo-Yamethin railroad as the
second phase and 111-mile
Yamethin-Mandalay as the
third phase, he added.
He spoke words of
thanks to Japanese International Cooperation AgencyJICA for its today’s donation as well as officials

development aids, grants
and technology transfers to
Myanmar.
Next, the JITI President handed over kinds
of equipment for railroad
maintenance to the Union minister. They then
observed a demonstration
showing how to use the
kinds of equipment worth ¥
5,327,000.
MNA

Good Samaritan NLM reporter
sends French tourist back to hotel
Pyinmana, 27 Nov—A
French tourist named Mr
Keraudran Nicolas Jacques,
49, was lost his way near
a rail track in Ywagauk
Ward in Pyinmana yesterday. Zaw Myo Naing, one
of the brilliant reporters of
NLM, took him to the office
of ward administrator and

gave a helping hand. According to the enquiry, the
gentleman was putting up
at Tonga Puri Hotel in Nay
Pyi Taw in Room No. 015.
The administrator hired a
taxi at a cost of 15000 kyat
to send the tourist back to
the hotel.
Khant Naing Myo